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The difference could impact your liability, and your relationships with suppliers, installers and customers.
It’s too easy for window and door dealers to potentially limit their participation (responsibility/liability) in the contract by posturing (when challenged by service issues) as a window sales company that does not manufacture or install the product but merely orders the product from a manufacturer, and as part of the service, contracts with third party installers to install the product in their customer’s homes; and include the installation in the price, treating it as incidental to the sale. (An impactful appellate defense a couple of years ago in such a case).
Conversely, with a contract to build, the purchaser has some control over the specifications of the object; the negotiations take place before the object is constructed; and a contract to build contemplates not only that the suppler will furnish the materials, but that he will also furnish his skill and labor in order to build the desired object.
Replacement window contracts might more easily be defined as a sales contracts, (after all, installers often are independent contractors) but the sales pitch betrays the points laid out above. The windows are pitched by the sales personnel as “custom built”; and the actual specs are based on needs and features discussed before the final order is drafted; and the dealer is expected to be the expert to help specify, remove the old, and install the new window and achieve the improved window/wall result.
Failure to describe the terms of the contract accurately up front can lead to substantive issues; discussed in Alonzo v. Chifici; issues you do not want in a window replacement contract - and probably what was intended by EnergyStar® Version6 posted installation requirements .
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USGlass Network
Recently, millions throughout the U.S. watched as the University of Virginia Cavaliers took on the Texas Tech University Red Raiders in the NCAA Tournament championship. While Charlottesville, Virginia, and Lubbock, Texas, may soon be known for basketball glory, what many may not know is the towns’ connections to the glass industry. Texas Tech has been home to many researchers whose work, especially concerning natural disasters, has impacted the glass industry.
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The Taos News
At Sierra Pacific, "Seed to Window" means that every atom of wood used in the company's windows is harvested from forests that have been tended by the company's founding family, the Emmersons, for four generations. Michael Laughlin has been the Taos, New Mexico, face of the California-based company since 1999. Laughlin was born and raised in Taos, and has a background in building. He brings to the job not only generations of connections in the community, but also a working understanding of the unique challenges of Northern New Mexico’s high altitude and weather conditions.
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Jamsill Guard® is an adjustable sill pan flashing designed to prevent water damage from window and door leaks. Made from high impact ABS plastic, Jamsill Guard® will not deteriorate or corrode over time. Our multi-piece telescoping design allows on-site adjustability to fit all rough openings and features sloped weep areas to help evacuate moisture to the exterior of the structure. Jamsill Guard® is bonded together on site using PVC cement, creating a one-piece sill pan flashing beneath your door or window. Click here to view our video. 
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Homebuilding & Renovating
External doors influence immediate perceptions of what the house beyond will be like and complete a well-considered architectural design. External doors influence immediate perceptions of what the house beyond will be like and complete a well-considered architectural design.
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Plastics Technology
Intek Plastics intends to maintain a leadership position in its core fenestration business. At the same time, it’s on a mission to leverage its expertise in materials know-how, engineering, technology and customer collaboration to become a force in other profile extrusion markets as well. If you’re in the profile extrusion business and focus on the window and door market, you are pretty much riding the ebbs and flows of the construction industry. That wasn’t an enviable position to be in during the economic crisis of 2008-2009, when the construction bubble burst, so Intek Plastics is doing something to prevent a recurrence.
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University of Warwick via Science Daily
Researchers have devised a processing technique that can create transparent polythene film that can be stronger as aluminum but at a fraction of the weight, and which could be used use in glazing, windscreens, visors and displays in ways that add strength and resilience while reducing weight. In a new research paper entitled "Glass-like transparent high strength polyethylene films by tuning drawing temperature."
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Woodworking Network
Window and door manufacturer Andersen Corporation is investing $105 million to build a 500,000 square foot manufacturing campus in Goodyear, Arizona. Andersen recently held a groundbreaking ceremony for its newest manufacturing and distribution facility, at which it expects to create more than 415 jobs during the first phase of its expansion. Andersen’s Goodyear facility will manufacture Andersen 100 Series products, one of its most popular products, made from Fibrex wood composite.
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